Thank god for this stuff, I mean seriously. I’ve by some miracle managed to cut most of the sugar from my life. Why? It was becoming a problem. I am just not one of those people who could have a couple squares of dark chocolate each day and call it good. I’d buy a delicious high-quality chocolate bar with every intention of it lasting a full week but more often than I care to admit, it would be gone in two days. While I advocate everything in moderation, there are definitely trigger foods that everyone has that set them off. My suggestion? Get rid of them. When moderation doesn’t work, eliminate whatever it is that is catching you up. I still eat naturally occurring sugar in fruit and I definitely still have some alcoholic beverages a few times a week but the cookies, sweets and chocolate have been nixed for a good 8 weeks now. Craziest part? I don’t even miss it or want it. I know, even I can’t believe it.

There are definitely those nights though when I really need a sweet Fix and this does the trick. Best part? It’s made up of over 70 different superfoods. This trumps a chocolate bar any day!

Shakeology Bark

Ingredients:

1 packet or scoop of Chocolate Shakeology

1 tablespoon coconut oil

Instructions:

Melt the coconut oil in the microwave. Remove from microwave and stir in 1 scoop or 1 packet of Shakeology. I’ve only made this with chocolate but I guess the other flavors would work well too?!

Pour mixture onto a piece of wax paper and spread thin. This is your chance to add any toppings you would like. I’ve done almonds but dried fruit would be equally tasty though add some sugar back into the mix.

Refrigerate for 20 minutes and take it out and break into pieces.

Other add-in ideas: before pouring the mixture out onto the wax paper you could add peppermint or vanilla extract or perhaps a teaspoon of peanut butter (no PB2 which removes the fat and replaces it with sugar…which is worse in my opinion!).

It’s a coffee lover’s dream come true! Shakeology Caffe Latte is here! I’m a big fan of adding coffee into a Vanilla or Chocolate Shakeology shake, but the arrival of Beachbody’s newest flavor, Caffe Latte, is a total game changer. Imagine, delicious coffee goodness in superfood form! I had the chance to sample it last weekend at a Super Saturday event with Carl Daikeler and Autumn Calabrese and even those who were not coffee drinkers gave it the two thumbs up!

New Shakeology Café Latte includes the coffee fruit, along with all the other goodness Shakeology is known for. It lends more coffee flavor to the shake, along with dense nutrition and makes it a more responsible drink, lowering the carbon footprint for coffee production by utilizing parts of the plant we don’t normally use. And don’t worry, it has very little caffeine, in fact, it has the same amount contained in ALL the Shakeology flavors, which is 75% less caffeine than you find in a cup of coffee. Word on the street from Autumn Calabrese is that this, combined with almond coconut milk and a teaspoon of peanut butter might be the best thing you’ve ever tasted. I’m IN!